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HALO science missions

To quickly jump to information about specific HALO campaigns you can use the links below which are sorted alphabetically using the mission acronyms.

For a list of ongoing and forthcoming HALO science missions in chronological order see further below on this page. For a calendar type display of these mission please check out the HALO calendar.

For a list of earlier already completed HALO science missions in chronological order please follow this link.

A list of forthcoming meetings related to the HALO science missions can be found on the front page.

 

ACRIDICON ANTHALO CAFE CHARM-F COMET EMeRGe GEOHALO iLOADS ML-CIRRUS NARVAL NARVAL 2 NAWDEX.. OMO POLSTRACC/GW-LCYCLE/SALSA (PGS) TACTS/ESMval WISE..

 

HALO science missions 2016-2018

For more detailed information on the HALO missions listed below, please follow the link underlying the mission acronym in the first table column.

Mission name Science topic Time period
(from / to)		 Airport basePrincipal Investigator(s)
(Mission coordinator)		Institute(s)
of PI(s)
POLSTRACC
GW-LCYCLE
SALSA
(PGS)		 Dynamics & chemistry of Arctic upper troposphere / lower stratosphere Nov 2, 2015Mar 24, 2016 Oberpfaffenhofen, Kiruna Hermann Oelhaf, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber
(Wolfgang Woiwode)		 KIT, Karlsruhe
iLOADS Structural load analysis HALO Mar 28Apr 29, 2016 Oberpfaffenhofen Wolf Krüger DLR, Institut für Aeroelastik, Göttingen
NARVAL II Remote sensing for validation: organized convection in the deep tropics Jun 20, 2016Aug 31, 2016 Barbados Björn Stevens
(Lutz Hirsch)		 Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
NAWDEX Mid-latitude dynamic meteorology: North Atlantic waveguide and downstream impact experiment Sep 14, 2016Oct 25, 2016 Keflavik Georg Craig1
(Andreas Schäfler2)		 1Meteorologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2DLR, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen
COMET Atmospheric composition: Sources and sinks of carbon dioxide and methane Feb 27, 2016May 19, 2017 Oberpfaffenhofen Andreas Fix DLR, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen
EMeRGe-EU Air chemistry: Transport and transformation of pollutants from megacities May 22, 2016Aug 4, 2017 Oberpfaffenhofen John Burrows, Lola Andrés Hernández Univ. Bremen
WISE Dynamics & chemistry of mid-latitude upper troposphere / lower stratosphere Aug 7, 2017Oct 20, 2017 Shannon Martin Riese1, Martin Kaufmann1, Peter Hoor2 1FZ Jülich, 2Univ. Mainz
EMeRGe-Asia Air chemistry: Transport and transformation of pollutants from megacities Feb 26, 2018May 4, 2018 [tbd] John Burrows, Lola Andrés Hernández Univ. Bremen
CAFE Atmospheric oxidation capacity over the tropical and South Atlantic Ocean Jun 18, 2018Sep 14, 2018 [tbd] Jos Lelieveld, Hartwig Harder, Horst Fischer Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz